60 Top jQuery Plugins of 2013

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We regularly check for useful resources and tools for web designers and developers,almost everyday and you know we immediately share them with either on social media platforms or on our blog Designbeep.

Well,we are almost at the end of 2013 and like every year,really useful jQuery plugins have been released by talented developers in 2013.Although we bring together these plugins in our ”weekly freebies for designers and developers” we thought it would be good to select and collect the most useful and popular jQuery plugins in one place.

Here is the collection 60 useful and popular jquery plugins for web developers.

fullPage.js

A simple and easy to use plugin to create fullscreen scrolling websites. (also known as single page websites) It allows to create fullscren scrolling websites as well as adding some landscape sliders inside the sections of the site.Source

SlideMe

Tabslet

Yet another jQuery plugin for tabs with some extra features like custom events, rotation and animation.Source

Textillate.js

A simple plugin for CSS3 text animations.Textillate.js combines some awesome libraries to provide an easy-to-use plugin for applying CSS3 animations to any text.Source

Snap.svg

SVG is an excellent way to create interactive, resolution-independent vector graphics that will look great on any size screen. And the Snap.svg JavaScript library makes working with your SVG assets as easy as jQuery makes working with the DOM.Source

Maplace.js

Scrolld.js

Scrolld.js is a unique open source plugin for jQuery. Scrolld.js provides a method for highly precise scrolling for pixel-perfect layouts and navigation using real-time updated data values. With Scrolld.js your scrolling to items will always be exact and will always provide the best user experience. Scrolld.js is specifically designed to support responsive designs and turns navigating long pages into a simple task.Source

One Page Scroll

One Page Scroll let you transform your website into a one page scroll website that allows users to scroll one page at a time. It is perfect for creating a website in which you want to present something to the viewers.Source

Flowtype.js

Ideally, the most legible typography contains between 45 and 75 characters per line. This is difficult to accomplish for all screen widths with only CSS media-queries. FlowType.JS eases this difficulty by changing the font-size—and subsequently the line-height—based on a specific element’s width. This allows for a perfect character count per line at any screen width.Source

Albumize

Albumize is a jQuery plugin that lets you manage collection of images in the web page as albums. With albumize, you can browse albums, add cover image to albums and switch between albums.Source

Smint

Smint is a simple jQuery plugin that helps with the navigation on one page style websites.It has 2 main elements, a sticky navigation bar that stays at the top of the page while you scroll down and menu buttons that automatically scroll the page to the section you clicked on.Source

Loda Button

jQuery plugin that animates the button icon with CSS3 when loadingSource

Scrollocue

Scrollocue is a jQuery plugin for building a simple autocue/teleprompter system, to scroll through lines of text.Walk through the autocue text with the arrows, space bar or just click.Source

floatlabels.js

On User Interaction with an input field the placeholder value moves up, and is displayed above the typed text.Source

jQuery Label Better

Label your form input like a boss with beautiful animation and without taking up spaceSource

Tabulous.js

A jQuery tabs module for todays web.Tabulous.js can be used with any contents you choose in the tabs and it couldn’t be more simpler to use.Source

Headroom.js

Headroom.js is a lightweight, high-performance JS widget (with no dependencies!) that allows you to react to the user’s scroll. The header on this site is a living example, it slides out of view when scrolling down and slides back in when scrolling up.Source

jQuery Knob

jQuery Gridly

Gridly is a jQuery plugin to enable dragging and dropping as well as resizing on a grids. In the example below try tapping or dragging any of the bricks.Source

FloatLabel.js

A jQuery plugin for floating form labels.As FloatLabel.js works by using CSS classes, the animations can be tweeked within jquery.FloatLabel.css.If the default classes conflict with the rest of your CSS for whatever reason, you can change them by passing in paramaters when you initialise the plugin. Don’t forget to update jquery.FloatLabel.css with your new class names if you need to make a change.Source

Succinct

JResponsive

A simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized layout to any page or element, customize the layout the way you want with or without top,right,left or bottom navigationsSource

Salvattore

A jQuery Masonry alternative with CSS-driven configuration.Salvattore distributes your grid items according to the number of columns you specify. Each of the items in your grid is placed within these columns, one by one.Source

FlexNav

FlexNav is a mobile-first example of using media queries and javascript to make a decent multi-level menu with support for touch, hover reveal, and keyboard tab input accessibility. Special attention is paid to touch screens using tap targets (the key feature of FlexNav).Source

Sidr

Sidr is a jQuery plugin for creating side menus and the easiest way for doing your menu responsive.Source

jQuery ScrollNav

ScrollUp

ScrollUp is a lightweight jQuery plugin to create a customisable “Scroll to top” feature that will work with any website, with ease.Source

ContentShare

ContentShare is a jQuery plugin which lets you share the exact content on a page which you actually want to share. It enables you to share selected text on your social network rather the default text specified in the meta tags.Source

Formance.js

A jQuery library for formatting and validating form fields, based on Stripe’s jQuery.payment library.Source

typeahead.js

Squishy

Squishy is a jQuery plugin that automatically resizes text to exactly fit the container with no extra work on your part.Source

stickUp

A simple plugin that “sticks” an element to the top of the browser window while scrolling past it, always keeping it in view. This plugin works on multi-page sites, but has additional features for one-pager layouts.Source

Glide.js

Glide is responsive and touch-friendly jQuery slider. Based on CSS3 transitions with fallback to older broswers. It’s simple, lightweight and fast. Designed to slide, no less, no more.Source

Riot.js

An incredibly fast, powerful yet tiny client side framework for building large scale web applications.Source

jQuery Valideasy

DropzoneJS

DropzoneJS is an open source library that provides drag’n’drop file uploads with image previews.Source

Odometer

Odometer is a Javascript and CSS library for smoothly transitioning numbers.Source

Rainyday.js

A simple script for simulating raindrops falling on a glass surface.Source

TogetherJS

TogetherJS is a free, open source Javascript library by Mozilla that adds collaboration features and tools to your website. By adding TogetherJS to your site, your users can help each other out on a website in real time.Source

pace.js

Include pace.js and the theme css of your choice, and you get a beautiful progress indicator for your page load and ajax navigation.No need to hook into any of your code, progress is detected automatically.Source

AnimateScroll

AnimateScroll is a jQuery plugin which enables you to scroll to any part of the page in style by just calling the animatescroll() function with the Id or Classname of the element where you want to scroll to.Source

CLNDR.js

CLNDR is a calendar plugin that uses HTML templates, allowing you to write custom markup and styles that have access to useful calendar data.Source

selectize.js

Selectize is an extensible jQuery-based custom UI control. It’s useful for tagging, contact lists, country selectors, and so on. It clocks in at around ~7kb (gzipped). The goal is to provide a solid & usable experience with a clean and powerful API.Source

animo.js

Chart.js

Easy, object oriented client side graphs for designers and developersSource

CollagePlus

This plugin for jQuery will arrange your images to fit exactly within a container. You can define the padding between images, give the images css borders and define a target row height.Source

elementTransitions.js

This repository is a wrapper around the code provided by a codrops article on page transitions. Their code has been modified to allow more than one animatable element per page. Additionally, you can now add transitions straight from html tags.Source

Progression.js

A jQuery plugin that gives users real time hints & progress updates as they complete forms.Source

HeapShot

jQuery HeapShot plugin is an image gallery plugin with a particular effect.Source

Flat Shadow

A small jQuery plugin that will automatically cast a shadow creating depth for your flat UI elementsSource

Intro.js

Better introductions for websites and features with a step-by-step guide for your projects.Source